Wouldn’t it be nice if I could whip up a quick .NET mail merge utility that could send out a nice HTML-formatted email to all of your customers, signed by each…
See how the Trailhead Framework combined with its new support for .NET Aspire and GitHub Copilot can make you a 10x productive developer. The post Turbocharged Development with The Trailhead Framework™ and .NET Aspire appeared first on Trai…
To put it simply, this article focuses on reducing the clutter that Dependency Injection (DI) can bring to your code—a powerful tool for clean architecture that, if misused, can also lead to monstrosities like this: I mean… we've all…
At Trailhead, we have built many enterprise-grade .NET APIs that deal with managing documents – files, photos, PDFs, etc – and in this blog I will distill some best practices that will help you optimize your API and download performance, re…
Microservices – have you heard the buzzword? Does this describe you? You are responsible for the architecture or product management of an enterprise sized software system. This could be an in-house system, or some software as a service syst…
Modern aspnetcore Web APIs are relatively easy to protect using Bearer Tokens issued by Duende IdentityServer. But there is a lot of legacy .NET framework code out there. This blog contains some simple tips to bring modern authentication to…
Scenario: Your API needs to call another REST API – or your Console App or Web Job needs to call some other REST API. You can acquire an access token to that API from an OAuth2 Security Token Service such as Duende Identity Server, Okta, Au…
I was recently working on a project where a fillable PDF form was populated with data and a QR code needed to be placed on the form. Here an easy way to accomplish that: First, load the form – in this example I just read it from a file. I a…
To get authenticated SignalR hubs to work, you need to allow credentials in CORS, so your aspnetcore code might look like this: services.AddCors(action => action.AddPolicy(policyName, builder => builder .AllowAnyMethod() .AllowAnyHe…
In two recent posts, I blogged about SignalR in .AspNet Core 2.1, and automating boilerplate multitenancy code in Entity Framework Core 2.1. Both these blogs alluded to knowing the identity of the calling user through claims and dependency…
In any real world enterprise application, you end up writing a lot of similar, tedious boilerplate code for bookkeeping . This logic results in a data model where each table is adorned with a lot of non-domain specific columns – does this l…
In a previous post, I wrote about using SignalR in AspNetCore. Today, I tried the next step up – SignalR as a service! You will find the announcement here. This page has more details. So why would you want to run SignalR as a service, rathe…
We've all been waiting for the first production release of SignalR for AspNetCore, and supposedly it's going to be out there any day now. Impatient as I am, I started using 1.0.0-preview2-final – and it rocks!  Here are some tips and t…
I recently needed to write a routine that exports a query to an Excel file, and came up with a generic solution I thought might be helpful to share. The code is in an AspNetCore project, but the same principles would work in other .NET scen…
I was recently doing some load testing of a client’s site, using Visual Studio Load Tests. I was running 1000 simulated users in Azure and measuring the response of the site. This is a great way to see how your site behaves under load. To m…
The other day I was faced with this task, and ran into quite a few issues on the way. Despite intense googling and corresponding on the AWS forums, I ended up having to resolve it myself, so by blogging about it I hope it might make someone…
I don’t know about you, but in my circles I hear a growing buzz about Containers, Docker, and how this will revolutionize the way we deploy software. What is this new thing and how will it affect you? The Short Version The short version is…
.NET Core 1.0 just shipped, and we just finished converting one of our projects from .net core RC2 to RTM. Thanks to Shawn Wildermuth and Rick Strahl for your helpful tips. It was way easier than going from RC1 to RC2! Ths pr…
A real life example A couple of months ago, we delivered a mobile app along with a middle tier API component, used by a fleet of drivers in direct delivery of goods. The app integrated with the back end sales and routing system, with GPS lo…
Today I had a lot of fun cobbling together lots of the puzzle peices of the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud and Mobile that everyone is talking about. My project allows a Raspberry Pi 3 running Windows IoT to control 12V landscape lighting,…
Recap of Build 2016 day-two announcements: Mono going MIT, Xamarin free for VS users, Microsoft Graph, conversation-as-a-platform, and the broader cross-platform/open-source pivot.
We had the pleasure of discussing this important industry happening with Jesse, head on over to listen! The post J and John on Jesse Liberty's podcast, on Microsoft Xamarin Acquisition appeared first on Trailhead Technology Partners.
The startup staffing conundrum Congratulations! You are a startup with a great software product idea, and have secured enough funding to get a first version to market! You know time to market is critical, you are concerned someone else migh…
Recently, we sent out the following newsletter that explains some exciting recent developments in cross platform mobile development. You can use the signup form to the right to add yourself to the newsletter list, we would love to stay in t…
Recently, we sent out the following newsletter to those we thought might be interested in what's happening on the technology front this year. You can use the signup form to the right to add yourself to the newsletter list, we would love to…
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